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aggregates Áhnika Ákása Andaja animals antecedent Ap water Ap-atom atoms Bhúta Bhútádi binary molecule Buddhist causal cause Chap characters Charaka chemical compounds chyle collocation colour compounds conceived concomitant cosmic Dalvana Dhamanis different Bhútas Earth substances Earth-atom Energy Essence evolution evolved forms of subtile Gunas heat Hindu ibid impact infra-atomic isomeric Jayanta kind Kiranávali Mahábhútas Mass mercury Method motion Nágárjuna nerves Nyáya Nyáya-Vaiseshika organic original oviparous ovum Pada Palas Paramánu particles Patanjali physical potential Prakriti produces Purána qualities radicle Rajas rudiment-matter Śankara Sankhya sanskara Sattva Sirâs Skandha Śloka smell sound specific Śrutis subtile matter supposed Susruta Sutra Sutra 14 t₁ Tanmátras taste Tejas tissues transformation Udayana Udyotakara unit Upádhi Váchaspati Vaiseshika Varáhamihira Váyu Vega vibration vibratory vide viscous viviparous Vyápti अपि इति एव तत्र तथा तस्य तु न च प्रवचनभाष्य भवति यः यथा योगवार्त्तिक वा विज्ञानभिक्षु व्यासभाष्य सति स्यात् हि
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Page 254 - the third or general proposition with an example, combines and harmonises Mill's view of the major premise as a brief memorandum of like instances already observed, fortified by a recommendation to extend its application to unobserved cases, with the Aristotelian view of it as a universal proposition which is the formal ground of the inference.
Page 12 - subject to addition and subtraction, growth and decay, which are only due to changes of collocation, and consequent changes of state from the potential to the actual (in other words, from the future to the present and from the present to the past, in a time
Page 4 - But the intelligence-stuff and the matter-stuff cannot do any work, and are devoid of productive activity in themselves. All work comes from Rajas, the principle of Energy, which overcomes the resistance of matter, and supplies even Intelligence with the Energy which it requires for its own work of conscious regulation and adaptation,
Page iii - Hindu scientific ideas and methodology (eg the inductive method or methods of algebraic analysis) have deeply influenced the course of natural philosophy in Asia—in the East as well as the West—in China and Japan, as well as in the Saracen Empire. A comparative estimate of Greek and Hindu science may now be undertaken with some measure of
Page 2 - system possesses a unique interest in the history of thought as embodying the earliest clear and comprehensive account of the process of cosmic evolution, viewed not as a mere metaphysical speculation but as a positive principle based on the conservation, the transformation, and the dissipation of Energy.
Page 13 - but without creation of anything new. What is called the (material) cause or sum of material causes is only the power which is efficient in the production, or rather the vehicle, of the power. This power is the unmanifested (or potential) form of the Energy set free
Page 222 - Chakra, opposite the uvula, which has twelve leaves (or lobes), supposed to be the tract affected in the production of ego-altruistic sentiments and affections like self-regard, pride, affection, grief, regret, respect, reverence, contentment, etc. (7) The sensori-motor tract, comprising two Chakras, (a) the
Page 229 - to the back of the left sympathetic chain, supposed to stretch from below the corner of the left eye to the left leg. It was evidently supposed that some nerves of the cervical plexus came down through the spinal cord and joined on to the great sciatic nerve of the sacral plexus. (6)
Page 21 - points out that this does not amount to a denial of Time. It means that Time has no real (or objective) existence apart from the " moment." But the latter is real, being identical with the unit of change in phenomena
Page 64 - To these classes of professional experts were due three of the great Indian discoveries in the chemical arts and manufactures which enabled India to command for more than a thousand years the markets of the East as well as the West and secured to her an easy and universally recognised pre-eminence among the nations of the world in manufactures and exports